What is the happiest decade in US History?

Answer 1

I think that it was ether the 60's or the 70's. But maybe the 70's because there was a revolutin of change duing that time. Also, without the 1970's, there would never have been a '' That 70's Show'' and that is the best show ever baby!!!!!!!!!

The 1960s were actually more important than the 1970s domestically because of the Civil Rights Movement, Cuban Missile Crisis, and some of the most infamous assassinations in our history (JFK, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.) The 1970s however did have President Nixon who ended the Vietnam War and destablized the U.S.S.R and Chinese relations, and President Jimmy Cater brought the energy crisis into perspective.

Answer 2

I am from India, so I get to know about the USA through books and media. However we give a lot of importance to US and it does have a lot of influence on our daily lives. So I give my perception here.

I think the post war 50 s to be the happiest ever in US History. I am talking of a time of a rising middle class, so a great deal of hope should be in the air, since everyone can now aspire, for material things as well as such services as medical care , schooling etc., There was reasonable advances in medicine with antibiotics and conquest of some devastating diseases. The market was not that volatile and everyone were pretty secure with their jobs. Say the auto industry just had the big three, and nothing much changed in the industries, technology was slow progressing so people could make sense of it and be sure they would not be jobless tomorrow for some technological reason or the other. Well, there was still some residual racism but drug abuse and hyper individualistic lifestyle had not yet made inroads. In short a more hopeful, more content, more laid back people made one of the most beautiful period in history , even world history. The 50s US is iconic even in a global sense.